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President Donald Trump, aiming to defeat Democratic Party nominee Zohran Mamdani in New York City's high-profile mayoral election, is urging rival candidates to drop out.

"I don't think you can win unless you have one on one," Trump told reporters before a White House dinner with leading tech industry executives on Thursday night.

Mamdani, the 33-year-old Ugandan-born socialist state lawmaker from the New York City borough of Queens, who has gained notoriety for his history of communist and antisemitic rhetoric, shocked the political world in June as he defeated former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and nine other candidates by double-digits to capture the Democratic Party's mayoral nomination.

Cuomo, who resigned as gove

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